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Privileging Evolution Theory In Schools This article covers the reason for privileging evolution theory in schools. Evolution is seen as the only scientific explanation of how life began and developed on earth. Creation, by contrast, is regarded as only a religious belief and therefore as unscientific. The theory of evolution,...
Social Impacts Of The Theory Of Evolution This article covers the social impacts of the theory of evolution. Social Darwinism refers to the attempts to utilize the evolutionary theory of Darwin to give descriptions of society or prescriptions for its best constitution. According to that theory, there is a struggle...
Evaluating The Theory Of Evolution Alterations to the theory of evolution over the last 250 years imply that as science progresses, it does not support the theory but rather changes or at least modifies it. The word “evolution“ comes from the Latin verb volvere, meaning “to roll, wind, turn around,...
Evolution: A Theory In Crisis Evolution: A Theory in Crisis is a 1985 book by Michael Denton, in which the author argues that the scientific theory of evolution by natural selection is a “theory in crisis”. Reviews by scientists say that the book distorts and misrepresents evolutionary theory and contains numerous...
The Creation Process: An Engineer’s Perspective This article covers The Creation Process from an engineer’s perspective. Engineers are mainly responsible for the highly regarded inventions of the last centuries that have made our daily lives easier. Nobody can deny the advantages of such technological wonders as planes, cars, television, etc.,...
Perfection And Primitiveness This article covers the relationship between perfection and primitiveness. One of the assertions of the Darwinian theory of evolution is that there is a perfection or structural and functional development in the animal kingdom from invertebrates to vertebrates, from fish to mammals, from mice to monkeys. According...
Biological Change This article covers the relationship between the theory of evolution and biological change. One argument advanced by those who accept (or, rather, who believe) the theory of evolution against those who believe in creation is this: ‘We put forward certain concepts related to evolution, right or wrong, for...
Change Or Choice: Is the Universe An Accident? This article covers the answer to the question: “Change or Choice: is the Universe an Accident?“ Our understanding of the genesis and evolution of the universe is one of the great achievements of 20th century science. The knowledge upon which it is...
Creation Definition Like other words of the same ending, the term creation (Latin creatio) signifies both an action and the object or effect thereof. Thus, in the latter sense, we speak of the “kingdoms of creation”, “the whole creation”, and so on. In the former sense the word sometimes stands for...
Creationism Explained Creationism (Latin creatio) can be defined as the following points: (1) In the widest sense, the doctrine that the material of the universe was created by God out of no pre-existing subject. It is thus opposed to all forms of Pantheism. (2) Less widely, the doctrine that the various species of living beings were immediately and directly created or...
Creationism Creationism, in its most widely used sense, is a set of religious positions opposed to modern materialistic views of the origin of the Earth and of living things. In a different and much older sense, creationism is a particular theological position on the origin of the human soul. Both senses are described here. In the first sense, creationism...
Mormon Views On Evolution This article covers Mormon views on evolution. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) takes no official position on whether or not biological evolution has occurred, nor on the validity of the modern evolutionary synthesis as a scientific theory. In the 20th century, the First Presidency of the LDS Church published...
Evidence Of Evolution In biology, evidence of evolution or evidence for evolution is generally any of an available body of facts or information that supports the theory of evolution. Complications arise because several different meanings are associated with “Evolution.” In a broad sense, “evolution” refers simply to any heritable change in a population of...
Evolutionism Evolutionism is a term used (often derogatorily) to denote the theory of evolution. Its exact meaning has changed over time as the study of evolution has progressed. In the 19th century, it was used to describe the belief that organisms deliberately improved themselves through progressive inherited change (orthogenesis). The teleological belief went on to...
Human Evolution Human evolution is that part of biological evolution concerning the emergence of humans as a distinct species. It is the subject of a broad scientific inquiry that seeks to understand and describe how this change and development occurred. The term “human,” in the context of human evolution, refers to the genus Homo or more specifically the species Homo...
Evolutionary Psychology Evolutionary psychology is a theoretical approach in psychology that examines cognition and behavior from a modern evolutionary perspective. It seeks to identify which human psychological traits are evolved adaptations – that is, the functional products of natural selection or sexual selection in human evolution. Adaptationist thinking about physiological mechanisms, such as the heart, lungs, and immune system,...
What Is Evolution? Broadly defined, biological evolution is any heritable change in a population of organisms over time. Changes may be slight or large, but must be passed on to the next generation (or many generations) and must involve populations, not individuals. Similarly, the term may be presented in terms of allele frequency (with an...
Evolution Explained This article covers Evolution (History and Scientific Foundation). The world of organisms comprises a great system of individual forms generally classified according to structural resemblances into kingdoms, classes, orders, families, genera, species. The species is considered as the unit of the system. It is designated by a double name,...
Catholics And Evolution This article covers the relationship between Catholics and evolution. One of the most important questions for every educated Catholic of today is: (1) What is to be thought of in the theory of evolution? (2) Is it to be rejected as unfounded and inimical to Christianity, or is it...
Relation Of God To The Universe This article covers the relation of God to the universe. The world is essentially dependent on God, and this dependence implies (1) that God is the Creator of the world — the producer of its whole substance; and (2) that its continuance in being...
